Success for HfMT pianists

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Teodor Pazov, master student from Mariya Yankova's class, has won a Berlin Philharmonic Concert Prize at the "Euterpe" Music Awards Competition and 1st prize at the Premio Pianistico Internazionale "Napolinova" in Napoli.

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Teodor Pazov was born on 26.08.1999 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2018, he successfully completed his secondary education at the National Music School "Lyubomir Pipkov" in Sofia in the class of Bulgarian pianist and pedagogue Antonina Boneva and was accepted to the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with maximum results. In 2022 he completed his bachelor's degree in the class of Mariya Yankova and was accepted to continue his studies for a master's degree.
Teodor has actively participated in master classes with renowned professors such as Grigory Gruzman, Bernd Goetzke and Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. Since the beginning of 2014, Teodor has been an active student and participant of Prof. Ludmil Angelov's master classes at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria.
He was a scholarship holder of the "Consonance Foundation", "Communittas", "American Foundation for Bulgaria", Otto-Stöterau Stiftung, Gisela-Bartels Stiftung, Deutschlandstipendium and Yehudi Menuhin LMN Hamburg.
He has received a number of awards from national and international competitions and festivals, including First Prize at the Premio Pianistico Internazionale Napolinova International Competition in Napoli, Italy (2024), First Prize at the Euterpe Music Awards (2024) and a special prize and invitation to the gala concert in the Kammersaal of the Berlin Philharmonie, First Prize at the III. International Gloria Artis Music Competition in Vienna, Austria (2023), Third Prize at the IV AMIGDALA International PRIZE for PIANO INTERPRETATION in Italy (2023), First Prize at the II Four Notes International Piano Competition (2022), Second Prize at the IX International Competition
"Città di Treviso" in Treviso, Italy (2022), First Prize at the Masters of Concerto, Great Composers Series (2020) and many others.
Teodor Pazov has also performed at various festivals and concerts in Europe, including the "Sofia Music Weeks" Festival, the "Apolonia" Festival, the "Boris Hristov" Arts Festival, the "Piano Extravaganza" Festival, at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw and Berlin, in Hamburg, in Vienna and others.
In 2023 he was soloist of the Symphonietta Vidin Orchestra in Vidin, Montana and Vratsa, in 2019 - soloist of the Symphonietta Sofia Orchestra, in 2016 and 2017 - soloist of the Symphonietta Vratsa Orchestra.
In 2022 he took part in the release of the CD and the concerts for its presentation as part of the project "Growing up with Rachmaninoff", which contains all Etudes- Tableaux Op.33 and Op.39 by the composer, performed by students of Antonina Boneva and supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture.

In September 2023 Teodor participated as a pianist in the world premiere of "11,000 strings for 50 microtonally tuned pianos and chamber orchestra" by Georg Friedrich Haas, organized by the Busoni-Mahler Foundation in Bolzano.